Qualifications

Biography

Huw has a first degree in Maths and Management Science from the University of Cambridge, a Masters degree in Operational Research (University of Sussex), a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Economics (Aberdeen) and a PhD in Health Services Research (Dundee). He has worked at the Universities of The South Bank (London), Dundee and St Andrews, as well as holding research management positions in the NHS. In 1998-99 Huw was a Harkness Fellow in International Health Care Policy, when he was based at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco, and in 2005-06 he was Visiting Professor at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand. During 2003-05 Huw was Deputy Director of the Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) Research Funding Programme on secondment to the Department of Health (London). Huw sat on the panel that selected collaborations for the first round of NIHR CLAHRC funding in 2008, and chaired the panel for the second wave of NIHR CLAHRC funding in 2013, committing a total of £126 million pounds to NHS infrastructural support for applied health research.

Huw's research interests are in public service delivery, especially in health care, encompassing evidence-based policy and practice, performance measurement and management, accountability, governance and trust. He also has a particular interest in the role of organisational culture and organisational learning in the delivery of high quality services, and in developing greater understanding of the working relationships between service professionals and service managers. Huw has published widely in each of these areas.

Research Specialisms

Healthcare policy and management: policy design and implementation; organisational dynamics and performance; and public accountability.

Major themes include:

The role of research evidence in health care policy, service design and professional practice;

Organisational performance in health care, its measurement and management, and the core role played by organisational cultures and social capital in shaping service delivery;

Inter-professional relationships and the impacts of cultural divergence in service organisations;

Konteh, FH, Mannion R, Davies HTO. Understanding culture and culture management in the English NHS: a comparison of professional and patient perspectives. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2011; 17(1): 111-117.

Other Professional Activities

Director of Knowledge Mobilisation for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Service Delivery and Organisation Programme (SDO): seconded 40% fte with an additional commitment 20% fte supporting development of the nine CLAHRC collaborations (Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care) (2008-2010).

Visiting Professor at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand (2005-06).

Deputy Director of the Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) R&D Programme at the Department of Health ( London; 2003-05).

Member of the National Patient Safety Research Portfolio (2004-07).

Formerly International Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California (San Francisco; 1998-99).